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Human and Nature Museum

Human and Nature Museum is open to public since the 4^th of November 1936 and it is the oldest and the largest museum institution in Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug. It can boast of a unique collection of over a hundred thousands of items.

Nowadays it is the only museum institution in Ugra, the scientific research results in the field of paleontology of which are recognized at the international level: the opening of the largest and the world’s only location of the mammoth fauna “Lugovskoye” – a unique testimony that the ancient man hunted after mammoths.

State Human and Nature Museum is a scientific and methodical center for assistance to municipal, departmental, school and community museums in the autonomous Okrug in all areas of museum activity.

Museum attendance has twice exceeded the number of the Khanty-Mansiysk population for several years.

Human and Nature Museum is the only institution in Ugra that developed and actively implemented a comprehensive program “Museum without a barrier” for people with disabilities.

In the years 2007 – 2008 four branches were created on the basis of the Human and Nature Museum: the “Estate Museum of the rural merchant” in Seliyarovo, a research hospital “Mukhrinskiy”, branch “Lugovskoye” and a nature monument “Samarovskiy Butte – Archaeopark” in Khanty-Mansiysk. Museum and its branches are the objects of Ugra tourist industry and active participants of its development.

During the Biathlon World Cup Final, 13-18 March 2012, the State Human and Nature Museum offers to visit the following expositions and exhibitions:

1. 1. Stationary exposition “Link of Times”: halls “Historical Time”, “Mythological Time”, “Rhythm of the biosphere”
2. 2. “Fashion of Spirits”
3. 3. “St. Nicholas”
4. 4. “Verkhneye Dvuobye: Who? What? About Whom? About what?”
5. 5. “The Graphics of Live Mood”
6. 6. “… I have a homesick, I wish I were home.”

Prices:

For each exposition hall – 30 rub

For guide services – 30 rub

Opening Hours:

Wednesday – Sunday 10:00-18:00

Phone: (3467) 32- 92-03

628011, Khanty-Mansiysk

Tyumen Region.11 Mira St.

Tel.: (3467) 32-12-08

Fax: (3467)32-12-31

E-mail: musey_prirody@mail.ru

www.ugramuseum.ru